The various dimensions of the ITSSD's educational mission are reflected in the bullets set forth below. In fulfilling this mission, ITSSD officers have served as panelists in a number of government, civil society and industry fora:
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To educate government, industry and civil society about the critical role served by balanced and objective regulations and technical standards in facilitating the international trade and investment flows, technological innovations, indigenous economic growth and environmental protection needed to achieve sustainable development; Industry Presentation Before the Small Business Coalition for Regulatory
Relief, National Federation of Independent Business, Washington DC February 2005 - [Event Photos] Presentation at the National Wood Pallet & Container Association’s 2005 Annual Leadership Conference, Tampa, FL – The Impact of Globalization on our Industry/Education Session #1 LA Kogan Presentation at the 9th International Forum on High Technology for the 21st Century, of the Moscow Entrepreneurs Association and the Mid-Atlantic Russia Business Council Taking Advantage of IP Protection to Advance Russian Hi-Technology
Government LA Kogan Hosts TBT Delegation from Vietnam Directorate for Standards and Quality for US-Vietnam Trade Council LA Kogan Engages in Dialogue with the Kenyan Embassy to the United States US Citizens Seeking Thorough Congressional Review of UNCLOS Win Debate Against US Navy Presentation at Reserved Officers Association Symposium: U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty - Historic Step Forward or Historic Blunder? ITSSD Comments Submitted to Colombian Government In Response to Draft Amendment of Colombian Decree 3249 (9/18/06) LA Kogan Presentation at National Defense University Center for Technology and National Security Policy, Unfrozen Treasures- National Security, Climate Change and the Arctic Frontier - Panel, Laws of the Sea: Changing Air, Land and Sea Routes Civil Society LA Kogan Presentation at the Temple University Beasely School of Law - Political & Civil Rights Law Review States as Laboratories for Social Change (Video presentation to follow)
LA Kogan Presentation at the First EurasiaBIO International Congress for Biotechnology, of the Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Russian Society of Biotechnologists Taking Advantage of IP Protection to Advance Russian Biotech
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To evaluate and recommend improvements to the international standards development process that serves as the benchmark for international trade, and to help ensure that the rulemaking and harmonization activities undertaken by treaty-based intergovernmental scientific and economic standards bodies and non-treaty-based non-governmental standards bodies are consistent with the current provisions of the WTO Agreements; Government LA Kogan Presentation at the 2003 ANSI International Policy Committee (IPC) Meeting ITSSD Submits Comments Critical of the ANSI Draft Revision to the United States Standards Strategy (USSS) Industry The ITSSD Sets Forth and Documents in the Following Discussion its Key Concerns About the Evolving ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standards Initiative LA Kogan Presentation at the Global Business Dialogue Symposium on Standards, Regulations and the Global Trading System |
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To engage in an international dialogue at the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and other intergovernmental fora that explores the truths and fallacies surrounding the welfare state (socialist) model of sustainable development currently being promoted by certain governments and civil society organizations through the multiple offices, agencies and secretariats of the United Nations; Intergovernmental June 2008 The WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) Admits ITSSD as Ad Hoc Observer - English (p. 1) June 2007 The WIPO Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA) Admits ITSSD as Ad Hoc Observer -
English (p.2) December 2006 The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Admits ITSSD as Ad Hoc Observer September 30, 2007 ITSSD Response to the Draft Global Strategy and Plan of Action November 2007 The WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) Admits ITSSD as Ad Hoc Observer |
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To challenge and debunk the false information about the environmental, health and safety risks engendered by free markets, economic growth, scientific discovery, technological innovation and industrialization that are being irresponsibly disseminated by civil society organizations to induce public fears, shape negative public opinion; LA Kogan Presentation at the 2nd Annual Good Neighbor Forum (videotape to follow) |
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To participate in WTO dispute settlement proceedings to
counter the use of technical regulations and standards that promote the
welfare state model of sustainable development and/or disguised
protectionist measures, through direct representation of developing
country government WTO parties and through preparation and submission of
WTO amicus curiae briefs; |
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To advocate a new positive global paradigm of sustainable development aimed at replacing the negative sustainable development model now being promoted and implemented within multilateral, regional and bilateral legal and public fora; |
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To challenge and debunk the false information disseminated about health, environmental and other emergencies used to justify the abrogation/piracy of private intellectual property rights and the expropriation/unauthorized 'taking' of foreign investments. Civil Society LA Kogan Presentation at Moscow State University – BASIC DIRECTIONS OF MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY - A SCIENTIFIC & PRACTICAL PRIORITY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION LA Kogan Presentation at the The International Conference of the Government of the Kirov Region, convened at Vyatka State University by the Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Russian Society of Biotechnologists BASIC DIRECTIONS OF MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY - A SCIENTIFIC PRACTICAL PRIORITY OF THE KIROV REGION DEVELOPMENT LA Kogan Presentation at the 10th Annual Property Rights Foundation of America Conference, Albany, NY U.S. Private Property Rights Under International Assault/Private Property Rights – The Record and the Vision ITSSD Moderates Joint Washington DC Press Conference With Other
Non-governmental Organizations LA Kogan Presentation at the 11th Annual Property Rights Foundation of America Conference, Albany, NY U.S. Private Property Rights Under International Assault/Private Property Rights Exposing the Law of the Sea Treaty: A Threat to Private Property Rights (transcription to follow)
LA Kogan Presentation at the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review Symposium, Globalization and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Brazilian Intellectual Property Law and US Policy Implications (Video to follow) Industry Civil Society – April 2007 [Detailed Outline] LA Kogan Presentation at the XXth Annual Forum da Liberdade, Convened by the Instituto de Estudos Empresariais (IEE) in Porto Alegre, Brasil – Rediscovering the Value of Intellectual Property Rights/IP in the 21st Century |